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  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLet them eat cereal rule
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    4 months ago

    Thanks for assuming a ton there, asshole.

    I have been there. I have scraped together coins I could find to buy a single pound of dry pasta, to eat it plain. Repeatedly.

    Money is not such an issue for me these days, but depression is. I know how hard it can be to do the minimal steps to make food.

    I understand how precious time, money, and energy can be. I have eaten cereal and the like for plenty of meals I shouldn’t have, and have always regretted it.

    There are better options.

    A $20 rice cooker is the same as like 5 boxes of cereal. If you are too money pressed, but have some time, one can likely be found nearly free at a thrift store or yard sale, or you can cook rice or pasta in a pot instead.

    If you don’t have access to a cooking surface, we’re getting to houselessness territory, which is a huge problem and is affecting far too many people, but is beyond just being poor or not having time.

    Edit: And if all that is too much, you can eat cold beans from a can. I have done this as well. It’s not great, but it’s a better option than cereal still.



  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLet them eat cereal rule
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    4 months ago

    You can get a rice cooker for $20. Then, you can make rice and beans (with beans from a can) with virtually no effort.

    You can also go from there if you have more time/money. Add cheese, hot sauce, salsa, avocado, make tacos, etc.

    But I’ve survived many a meal with just rice from a rice cooker and a can of beans, and it’s far more nutritious and has left me feeling far better than eating cereal would.





  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneindustrule revolution
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    6 months ago

    My washer and dryer both support internet-connected “smart” features, which I find pretty silly.

    However, some water got into the dryer’s interface (touch screen buttons), and we were unable to start it. Connecting it to the internet and using the app to start it was a workaround. Fortunately, the water dried and now the button works again.

    So that’s one niche use-case I can think of. I’d just prefer physical buttons that are more reliable, though.







  • I prefer to come at it from an immediate utility level, and I think a good place to start with that is home-manager.

    You can install nix and home-manager on any Linux distribution or MacOs. It lets you, in a single place, specify what packages you want, services you want to run at the user level, and what config files you want in your home directory. For a lot of things, home-manager has built-in config options, but you can also specify arbitrary config files.

    Then, you can take this one file to a new computer, and with no other config, have everything set-up the way you like it.

    NixOs allows you to do this for your whole system.

    It also has a bunch of other benefits, which tie-in to the jargon you bring up. But if you want to check it out, I’d worry about that later.




  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    10 months ago
    1. He asked if he could say “a word”. Usually, that expression is not meant literally, but in this case it was.

    2. The word said was “plethora”, which can be defined as “a lot”, as pointed out in the final panel. This panel also has a double meaning, as normally the phrase uttered would not be meant literally.

    3. I don’t believe there is a third layer.